: Dinger,
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
, p. 415.
102
extraordinary tirade against Chauncey Higbee
: Rocky O’Donovan, “The Abominable and Detestable Crime Against Nature: A Brief History of Homosexuality and Mormonism, 1840–1980,” in
Multiply and Replenish: Mormon Essays on Sex and Family,
ed. Brent Corcoran (Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1994).
102
Joseph accused Harrison Sagers
: Dinger,
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
, p. 478.
102
“walked up and down the streets”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church
, vol. 6, p. 46.
103
“we have lately been credibly informed”
:
Times and Seasons
, February 1, 1844.
103
“one or two disaffected individuals”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 6, p. 378.
104
“Do you solemnly swear”
: James Wesley Scott, “The Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott Family: 1779–1910,” online history and genealogy available at
http://www.scottcorner.org/JACOB%20&%20SARAH%20SCOTT.pdf
, p. 79; Horace H. Cummings, “Conspiracy of Nauvoo,” August 8, 1932, typescript submitted note, BYU Library, Provo, Utah.
104
“I kept a detective”
: Cook,
William Law,
p. 118.
105
Attacks of a very different kind
: Andrew F. Ehat, “Joseph Smith’s Introduction of Temple Ordinances and the 1844 Mormon Succession Question,” master’s thesis in history, Brigham Young University, December 1982, p. 77.
6. “T
HE
P
ERVERSION OF
S
ACRED
T
HINGS
”
109
plans to publish a new, independent newspaper
: Marvin Hill,
Quest for Refuge: The Mormon Flight from American Pluralism
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 144.
110
Expositor
was “a hazardous enterprise”
: Macomb
Eagle,
May 22, 1875.
110
not a cautious enterprise
: B. H. Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
2nd ed., rev., vol. 6 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978), p. 43.
111
“You have trampled upon”
: Lyndon W. Cook,
William Law: Biographical Essay; Nauvoo Diary; Correspondence; Interview
(Orem, UT: Grandin Book, 1994), p. 30.
111
“I had prepared some manuscript”
: Ibid.
113
“the perversion of sacred things”
: Brotherton’s letter appeared in the St. Louis
Bulletin
, July 15, 1842, and elsewhere. Details of the case appear in Fawn Brodie,
No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith the Mormon Prophet
(New York: Vintage Books, 1995), p. 307, and George D. Smith,
Nauvoo Polygamy
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 264ff.
116
Expositor
flew out the doors
: B. Carmon Hardy,
Doing the Works of Abraham: Mormon Polygamy: Its Origin, Practice, and Demise
(Norman, OK: Arthur H. Clark, 2007), p. 69.
117
the eager-to-please council
: George D. Smith, ed.
An Intimate Chronicle: The Journals of William Clayton
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1995), p. 133; John S. Dinger, ed.,
The Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 2011), p. 215.
117
passed several special ordinances
: Dinger, ed.,
Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes,
p. 188.
117
inveighing against their enemies
: Ibid., p. 238ff, has a complete record of the council’s Saturday session.
118
“the wickedest man on earth”
: Hyrum L. Andrus and Helen Mae Andrus,
They Knew the Prophet
(Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1974), p. 148.
118
a raucously unreliable memoir
: Dinger, ed.,
Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes
; and Joseph Jackson,
Adventures and Experiences of Joseph Jackson: Disclosing the Depths of Mormon Villainy in Nauvoo
(Warsaw, IL, 1846).
119
“Free People of Color”
:
Evening and Morning Star Extra
, July 16, 1833.
119
an angry mob killed . . . abolitionist editor
: Thomas Ford,
A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
(Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1845), p. 244ff.
120
“a greater nuisance than”
: Dinger,
Nauvoo City and High Council Minutes,
p. 250ff, has the complete record of the council’s Monday session.
120
“quote Blackstone and other authors”
: George W. Givens and Sylvia Givens,
Five Hundred Little-Known Facts About Nauvoo
(Springville, UT: Bonneville Books, 2010), p. 36.
120
“Whatsoever unlawfully annoys”
: William Blackstone and Cyrus Sprague,
Blackstone Commentary Abridged
(London, 1899), p. 290.
121
methodically trashed the interior
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 6, p. 490.
122
“work of destruction and desperation”
: Warsaw
Signal,
June 11, 1844.
122
“I gave them a short address”
: Scott H. Faulring, ed.,
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 498.
122
“The work of Joseph’s agents”
:
Salt Lake Tribune,
July 31, 1887, William Wyl interview.
123
Missionary Isaac Scott wrote
: Letter, June 16, 1844, in James Wesley Scott, “The Jacob and Sarah Warnock Scott Family: 1779–1910,” online genealogy available at
http://www.scottcorner.org/JACOB%20&%20SARAH%20SCOTT.pdf
.
124
“War and extermination is inevitable!”
:
Warsaw Signal,
June 12, 1844.
124
Smith had yet again escaped arrest
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church
, vol. 6, p. 458.
125
“Such an excitement”
: Ibid., p. 463.
125
“violated the highest privilege”
: Ibid.
7. “C
RUCIFY
H
IM
! C
RUCIFY
H
IM
!”
127
“Two brethren come”
: Scott H. Faulring, ed.,
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 491.
128
According to Morley’s letter
: B. H. Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
2nd ed., rev., vol. 6 (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978), p. 482.
128
“Instruct the companies”
: Ibid.
128
examining Benjamin West’s famous painting
: Noel A. Carmack, “Of Prophets and Pale Horses: Joseph Smith, Benjamin West, and the American Millenarian Tradition,”
Dialogue—A Journal of Mormon Thought
(Fall 1996).
130
“I thought I was riding out”
: Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church,
vol. 6, p. 461.
130
“I looked out of the pit”
: Ibid.
131
his fiery, final sermon
: The entire sermon can be found in ibid., p. 473ff.
134
Smith dispatched another letter
: Ibid., p. 466.
8. E
NTER
P
ONTIUS
P
ILATE
136
“DOUGLAS is a
master spirit”
: Glen Leonard,
Nauvoo: A Place of Peace, a People of Promise
(Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 2002), p. 296; and Richard Lyman Bushman,
Joseph Smith: Rough Stone Rolling
(New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005), p. 426.
136
“like a man weary of human nature”
: B. W. Richmond,
Deseret News
, November 27, 1875.
136
Illinois governorship . . . “was feeble”
: Thomas Ford,
A History of Illinois, from Its Commencement as a State in 1818 to 1847
(Chicago: S. C. Griggs, 1845), p. 104.
136
Tyler “accidentally became president”
: Ibid., p. 271.
137
“so wholly wanting in self-confidence”
: Robert Howard,
Mostly Good and Competent Men: The Illinois Governors, 1818–1988
(Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1988); and Rodney Davis, “Introduction” to Ford,
A History of Illinois
; John Francis Snyder, “Governor Ford and His Family,”
Journal of the Illinois Historical Society
3 (1910).
137
Ford supported the vigilante “regulators”
: Rodney O. Davis, “Judge Ford and the Regulators, 1841–1842,” in
Selected Papers in Illinois History
(Springfield: Illinois State Historical Society, 1981).
138
“no money in the treasury whatever”
: Ford,
A History of Illinois,
p. 446.
139
“The early settlers”
: Ibid., p. 406.
139
“they all hold meetings”
: John Hallwas, “Thomas Gregg: Early Illinois Journalist and Author,”
Western Illinois Monograph Series
, no. 2, Western Illinois University, Macomb, 1983, p. 22.
140
Fraim’s execution
: Dallin Oaks and Marvin Hill,
Carthage Conspiracy
(Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1979), p. 3.
140
“2 Brothers arrived from Carthage”
: Scott H. Faulring, ed.,
An American Prophet’s Record: The Diaries and Journals of Joseph Smith
(Salt Lake City: Signature Books, 1989), p. 493.
141
“A rumor is afloat”
: Warsaw
Signal,
June 19, 1844.
141
He sent a young Mormon
: “Autobiography of Gilbert Belnap,” available at
http://www.boap.org/LDS/Early-Saints/GBelnap.html
.
142
“I can assure that”
: George Rockwell, Letters, letter addressed to “Parents,” 1844, Harold B. Lee Library, Provo, Utah, and Kansas State Historical Society.
143
Legion drilled every morning
: Richard E. Bennett, Susan Easton Black, and Donald Q. Cannon,
The Nauvoo Legion in Illinois: A History of the Mormon Militia, 1841–1845
(Norman, OK: Arthur Clark, 2010), p. 241.
143
guard the waterfront and station pickets
: Leonard,
Nauvoo,
p. 370; Bennett, Black, and Cannon,
Nauvoo Legion,
p. 241.
144
“We have never violated the laws”
: “The Last Speech of President Smith to the Legion,” in B. H. Roberts, ed.,
History of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,
2nd ed., rev. (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Company, 1978), vol. 6, p. 498ff.
146
“filled with a perfect set of rabble”
: B. H. Roberts,
The Rise and Fall of Nauvoo
(Salt Lake City: Deseret News, 1900), p. 418.
146
“You have no idea”
: Leonard,
Nauvoo,
p. 368; S. O. Williams letter to John Prickett, July 10, 1844, in John Hallwas and Roger Launius,
Cultures in Conflict: A Documentary History of the Mormon War in Illinois
(Logan: Utah State University Press, 1995), p. 222.
146
a vast military bivouac
: S. O. Williams letter to John Prickett.
146
“about six acres of ground”
: B. W. Richmond,
Deseret News
, November 27, 1875.
147